Hearing that the friendly forces in the flank and rear were attacked, Honda Tadakatsu only thought for a moment before making a decision: "Although Lieutenant General Pingshou, the prime minister, specially explained that 'no waste' was to march one by one, step by step, in order to form horns and cover each other. If a friendly force is in crisis, it is natural that it should be rescued. But it is not easy to throw the whole army into it, so as not to confuse the formation. ”

With that, he ordered the troops to gather the samurai on horseback at once.

The subordinates did not dare to question it and immediately carried out the order.

The 5,000 people brought out from home this time were from Mikawa, Owari, and Ise, and none of them were good places to produce horses, so the proportion of horses they carried was very low, and in a hurry, only 340 horses were raised.

Honda Tadakatsu didn't feel that there were few soldiers, so he immediately stepped on his mount and said, "The rider will follow me to talk about the matter, and the rest of the people will be temporarily in charge of Kawai Matagoro, stick to this place, and be ready for battle!" ”

Kawai Matagoro exclaimed, "Isn't it too dangerous for you to attack with only three hundred men?" ”

Hearing this, Honda Tadakatsu was unimpressed: "Don't worry! I've been fighting like this every time I've been fighting since I was in Yuanfu, when did something go wrong? The soldiers are noble, not many, three hundred warriors, enough to cross and horizontally. ”

"But ......," Kawai Matagoro frowned and worried, "Today's enemy is Echigo Uesugi!" It is said that they are brave and good at fighting, and they are not afraid of death, and they are afraid that they are more terrible than their previous enemies......"

Honda Tadakatsu stroked the spear and said, "Echigo Uesugi soldiers, aren't they mortal fetuses?" Could it be a copper-headed iron arm? If the gun is pierced in the neck, it will not bleed, and it will not die? ”

The words drew laughter from the soldiers.

The tension disappeared in an instant.

So the three hundred and forty cavalrymen, following the direction pointed by Honda Tadakatsu, rode their horses and whipped away.

After walking 1,800 steps, he began to see flags, swords and guns, and piles of corpses scattered on the ground, which were clearly included in the battle damage of the two warring sides.

The exact number was too late to be settled, and the general impression was that there were fewer casualties on the Uesugi side and more casualties on the draw side.

But after a few glances, Honda Tadashi smiled with relief and said to the soldiers, "Don't be afraid! If you look at the dead soldiers of friendly forces, they were all wounded head-on and died on their backs, indicating that they died heroically in battle, rather than being chased by others when they ran away. Although the friendly forces retreated, they did not collapse. ”

After saying that, he cleaned up a little and continued to gallop forward.

This improvised cavalry contingent, whether it is the color of the horses, the shape of the weapons, or the color of the banners and armor, is completely ununiform. The running formation is also scattered and scattered, and it is impossible to form a wall charge that goes hand in hand - of course, this is also the normal painting style of this era.

However, with Honda Tadashi leading the team, taking the lead, not avoiding the rain and arrows, and being able to boost morale with three words and two words, the few more than 300 people also have an indomitable momentum.

Not long after, he suddenly encountered an unknown ranger.

Haruka on the other side: "This is the Uesugi family's ashigaru general Anaka Tadamasa, who is there?" ”

Honda Tadakatsu patted his horse to meet him, and at the same time responded: "The Tokugawa family Honda Heihachi has come to take your life!" ”

When the enemy general heard this, he was furious and brought his guns to fight.

The two rode towards each other, each grabbing the handle, and staggered in an instant.

Seeing a flash of cold light, Honda Tadakatsu's eyes were fast, the spear commander galloped, stabbed the opponent in the chest first, picked off the horse with one blow, rolled a few times, screamed, and there was no movement.

Another samurai in the Uesugi Ranger immediately shouted, "Give back my eldest brother's life!" Then he went on to kill him.

Honda Tadakatsu had just made a force to kill, and he didn't have time to fight again, but he didn't fight hard, only clamped his legs and twisted his waist. The war horse under the crotch seemed to have understanding and a sharp heart, and then suddenly turned, spared the circle and ran out diagonally.

The enemy general is impetuous, shouting and shouting, ignoring everything, and slapping the horse to chase after him.

Honda Tadakatsu had already turned sideways, facing his back, and suddenly with a twist of his hands, the dragonfly slashed and swept away, just like a "return pistol", slashing the neck of the opponent's mount that was not covered by the armor.

The white horse wailed, and fell to its knees with weakness.

The samurai on horseback above couldn't react, and was thrown off his horse and fell in a whirlwind.

At this time, Honda Tadashi stepped forward again, easily made up for the blow, and took off the head.

The rest of the Uesugi family's dozen or so rangers were all terrified and fled with their heads in their hands.

You can also hear a panicked chatter:

"I don't want to go outside of Echigo, there are also such Shenwu generals!"

"It's not something we can handle!"

"Go, go and ask Lord Kakizaki to teach this kid a lesson!"

At this time, Honda Tadashi stopped and said: "This kind of swimming, chasing it is a waste of physical strength, it is better to let it go, let them spread the heroic posture of our army!" ”

One of the cavalrymen said, "Doesn't that make the enemy aware of our actions and take precautions?" ”

Honda Tadakatsu smiled calmly: "That's what I want!" Today, our soldiers are outnumbered, and there is no need for any tricks and surprise attacks, just use regular soldiers to fight! ”

More than 300 riders, dismounted, rested for a while, drank some water, and continued to advance.

After about a quarter of an hour, the enemy's main force was still not seen, but there were Yamamoto Temple Dingcho, Nagao Keitao, Yasuda Kengen and others, who seemed to lead the special forces out to block the attack.

Still according to Fang Cai's tactics, Honda Tadashi stepped forward to ask the enemy generals, and the rest rushed forward.

But this Uesugi family's descendant troops are obviously completely different from the people of the foreign countries, and they are calm and calm in every situation. The soldiers of the first line stretched out their bows and arrows, and only fired them together when the cavalry entered within a hundred paces, but after this round, they immediately abandoned their bows and raised their swords and spears to meet the enemy.

Of more than 300 horsemen, only one or twenty unlucky ones fell off their horses, and the rest continued to charge.

In an instant, many Uesugi soldiers were trampled to death by the impact, but someone immediately came up to the back, fearlessly taking their lives to fill in, and confronting the tall horses with plain guns and naginatas.

Honda Tadashi killed two people in a row, but instead of scattering the enemy's formation, he felt like he was stepping into a quagmire, and sensed the hidden danger, so he decisively ordered the whole army to pull out their horses and turn back, and not to fall in love.

Pulling away from the distance, roughly counting the rough inventory, the loss of sixty or seventy horsemen was roughly lost.

And Uesugi's Einsatzgruppen apparently also left behind a large number of corpses, and it is speculated that there should be nearly two hundred.

At this time, Honda Tadashi couldn't help but have a clearer understanding of the enemy's combat strength, and immediately changed his mind and said: "It seems that the Echigo people are really brave, and it is difficult to defeat them for a while, what we can do at the moment is to attack everywhere, disrupt the other party's arrangement, protect ourselves first, and then try to help the friendly army contain more enemy soldiers!" ”

With that, he turned his horse's head and made a circle from the flank of the enemy in front of him, and threw it off beyond the range of his bow and arrows, and continued south.

More messes and corpses were seen. Occasionally, unidentified stragglers haunt the scene.

Honda Tadakatsu carefully identifies and finds a lone enemy, so he will come forward to pick up the leak. Otherwise, they will only ride their horses and refuse to really charge.

It didn't take long to finally catch a glimpse of the battle between the two large corps.

I saw that more than two-thirds of the position built by Oda Nagayi had been lost, and most of the soldiers seemed to have been killed or fled, but there was still the last corner, with Oda's family crest high, still relying on the last fortifications, desperately resisting.

The surrounding Uesugi family's military situation has almost become a state of siege.

At a glance, there are the banners of many famous generals such as Kakisaki, Saito, Nakajo, Shibe, and Gansu.

Only Uesugi Kenshin's Bizi Banner and Ranlong Banner are missing.

Honda Tadakatsu thought of something, stopped on his horse, and fell into deep thought.

But reality didn't leave him much time to think about the problem.

Suddenly, the southern flag was unfurled, the shouts shook the sky, and the two troops came out with great momentum.

Someone shouted: "Reinforcements from Lieutenant General Pingshou Prime Minister have arrived!" ”

At a close look, it is indeed the two departments of Baixiang Jiajia and Kato Kotai, and they are outflanked on the left and right sides of each extension.

In the camp of Oda Nagayi, there were still people who insisted on resisting and had not given up, and there was a new force of reinforcements in the rear. On the other hand, the Uesugi family has been unable to attack for a long time, and its momentum has gradually declined.

I don't know who shouted loudly, "Retreat!" ”

It was so loud that it could be heard from ten miles away.

Then the sound of gold and stone sounded, and the various departments of the Uesugi family began to turn around and move towards the rear.

Seeing this, Honda Tadakatsu did not hesitate, and immediately ordered the soldiers to come forward to meet the battle, and delay as much as possible at the expense of sacrifice.

Just now he ordered to "protect himself", but now he is "fighting to the death", which seems to be a change of order, but in fact it is not contradictory. Everything is for the sake of the final battle situation, when you should not sacrifice, you must try to cherish the soldiers, and when you must sacrifice, you should remember the truth of not being in charge of the soldiers.

All parties encountered, and after a scuffle, it took a long time to determine the winner.

The chief of the color department desperately stopped Bai Xiang Jiajia and Kato Kotai, and fought to the last man, and hundreds of soldiers in the department were almost all wiped out.

Kakizaki Keijia, Saito Asanobu, and Kasumi Keiji withdrew, but Nakajo Keishi was left behind, and it was difficult to get out of being entangled by Honda Tadakatsu, and he was finally besieged and finally beheaded.

The two important ministers of the Uesugi family were killed, and everyone was happy.

The generals met, worshiped their hometowns and Kato, considering nepotism, complimented one after another: "Oda Changyiden was attacked, fought alone, and persisted for half a day, which can be called the first merit!" ”

But on the Oda side, what came out was a strange face.

Oda Nagayi's old man Okayama returned the salute in embarrassment: "As soon as the battle began, the contemptible lord was hit by an arrow and was seriously injured and unable to fight. The one who took over the command and insisted on fighting was this deputy general - Dao Qingxing Palace! ”

Everyone looked at each other, and after a while, the worship of the village Jiacai recalled that this person was originally a retainer of the Yamato Tsutsui clan, and later escorted the princess to Gifu Castle to "marry", so he stayed in Mino, but he didn't expect that he would make a mistake, and he was in the limelight today!

Island Qingxing seems to be a taciturn and impersonal person, just a simple salute, and then silent, so that people don't even have the idea of stepping forward to say hello.

At this time, Honda Tadashi came in a hurry, and he didn't have the heart to take care of the affairs of the world, so he said directly: "If my expectations are good, the main force on the opposite side of the Shandanzheng is probably in the contemptible position, if we help in time, the inside and the outside should be combined, we will be able to make persistent efforts and achieve greater victories!" ”